01 April, 2007

April 1, 1978

april fool’s day. we played a tea joke on the parents. only morgan + dodo’s mum + dad fell for it. we went to birmingham by train we went to the museum of science + industry then we had lunch in a wimpy bar + proper american icecream for dessert. we also went to the birmingham museum proper we went home on the train m, d + i saw bridge disasters + celebrity squares we had tacos for supper then bath + bed

My mother has always been enthusiastic about introducing us to American culture. But Wimpy bars were the height of sophistication – and Birmingham, though it has seen a bit of a renaissance in recent years, was mostly as its reputation implies at that time, although parts of it – especially the City museum – have always been good.

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